Melvin Vaniman

Melvin Vaniman (1866-1912), an American adventurer, singer, aeronaut and photographer, had a passion for taking photographs from unusual vantage points such as ship's masts and balloons. Vaniman arrived in Sydney in February 1903 and left Australia in August 1904. During that time he travelled extensively throughout the country.

 Bennelong Point, Circular Quay and Dawes Point, 1904

 

Circular Quay from a ship's mast, 1903

  

Blue Mountains scenery at Leura, 1903

 

Harvesting wheat on Brundah Station, Grenfell, 1903

 

Harvesting wheat, Narramine Station, Narromine, 1903

Source: State Library of New South Wales

A. H. Poole

Archibald McCoy with wife and baby on horseback, Co. Waterford, ca. 1901

  

Lady Clodagh Beresford and a member of the Malcomson family

 

Mr. Peare, Catherine Street, Waterford, April 1906

 

Physical Culture Class, 27 April 1909

  

War Hospital supply, committee group, 1916

 

Source: National Library of Ireland

Ole Tobias Olsen

Group in front of a house

 

Hattfjelldal. Confirmations, 1860-1900

 

Man, woman and child, 1860-1900

 

Mr. O. Greys Dampsag in Arvika, 1860-1900

 

Sandefjord. Group on hotel stairs, 1860-1900

 

Source: Wikimedia Commons

Eugène Trutat

Group portrait, Luchon

  

Monte Carlo, April 1904

 

Nice. Flower market, April 1899

 

On the way to Bonaguil

 

The capitol decorated, 14 July 1899

 

Source: Wikimedia Commons

Paul Stang

Children in rain coats, ca. 1920

  

Marie Stang playing the fiddle, ca. 1910

 

These boys from the Stang and Gjerde farms were hired to transport sand 

and cement to the dams being constructed in Stongfjorden, ca. 1910

 

Two men playfighting in the street, ca. 1910

 

Winter in Stongfjorden, ca. 1910

 

Source: Fylkesarkivet i Sogn og Fjordane

Detroit Publishing

Riverside Inn, Saranac Lake, Adirondack Mountains, NY, ca. 1909

  

Sagamore dock, Green Island, Lake George, NY, ca. 1904

 

Schooley's Mountain, road from Hackettstown, NJ, 1890-1901

 

Shore Drive, Lincoln Park, Chicago, ca. 1905

 

Silver Bay Hotel, Lake George, NY, ca. 1906

Vintage New Zealand

Children in the children's ward of Wellington Hospital, ca 1928

  

Deer hunters in a dinghy, ca 1920s

 

Group of people watching the eruption of Mount Ngauruhoe, Waikato, 1926

 

Primary school classroom and pupils, ca. 1920s

 

Women strawberry pickers, Lower Motueka, early 1920s

 

Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand